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wireless telephony

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noun

  1. Now Rare. radiotelephony.


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That is because Vodafone’s operations are mostly limited to wireless telephony compared with Liberty Global’s broadband services in the region.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015

"The commanders of tank forces will be carried in the air above their commands," he said, "and thus will be able to watch the course of operations and control their progress by wireless telephony."

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2014

California-based SS/L has developed satellites that are used for television broadcasting, direct-to-home television services, broadband communications, military communications, wireless telephony, digital satellite radio, weather monitoring and air traffic management.

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2012

In a remarkably short time period, the iPod, iTunes Music Store and iPhone upended such products, not to mention the enormous industries like wireless telephony and media that stood behind them.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 20, 2011

Millions of messages going in all directions, crossing and recrossing one another, as is done every day by wire, are probably an impossibility by wireless telephony.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg